What did buccaneers... er... "buccan?"
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Published in Daily Trivia
In the 17th and 18th centuries a number of pirates and freeloaders settled on the island of Santo Domingo in the Caribbean Sea, where they smoked meat and sold it to other pirates in exchange for booty. The Carib Indian verb for smoked meat was "boucan." Thus, pirates became known as buccaneers. And, just in case you were wondering, the word pirate comes from the Greek "peiran" meaning "to attack."
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